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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The largest and one of the finest parks
in Minneapolis has been bought by a sym
dictate of temperance people. 1t will be
known as Lincoln Park. One of its ave
MUGS is named Frances, another Willard.
No liquor can be made or sold there. Mrs.
l.. G. Fixen, superintendent of Scandina-
Wan work for the National w. G. r. t.,
is secretary of the association.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

THE COOP TEMPLAHs. PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Right Worthy Grand Lodge
in 1889:
liquors As Il beverage.
:. No License in any form or under any cir,
eumstances, for the sale ofliquors TO De used
as a beverage.
3. The ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION ofthe manutac
ture. importation and sale of Intoxicating
liquors for such purposes-prohlDItloh by the
will of the people, expressed in due form of
law, with the penalties deserved for a crime OF
such enormity.
A. The creation of a healthy public opinion
unon the subject, by the active dissemination
OF truth in all the modes known to an enil9ht-
ened philanthropy.
5. The election good, honest men 10 au-
minister the law.
6. Persistence in efforts to save individuals
and communities from so direful a scourge
against any forms of opposition and difficulty
until our success is complete and universal.
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dMatrarnaker's
pbiladelphia. Monday. August y, 1851.

Philadelphia. Monday. August p, 1851.
What is going on at Wanna
makers? More than you dream
if you watch the thermometer,
Bargains bring buyers.
Don't forget that the Store
will close at P. M. on Satur-
day.
John WANAMAKER,
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets
and CitV-halI square.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The new law by which all moneys re-
naming to the credit of a school district
the County Collector, will probably urge
district trustees to pay better salaries and
make sure that there is no balance to be
confiscated.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

Chief Templar. I. s. Fogg, Woodstown.
Counsellor, Jos. ). Bradway, W~oodstown.
Vice Templar, NJ. a. Reece; Mullica Hill;
Supt. Juvenile Temples, May sparks, rcd
riclStoWn.
Secretary, Theo. \. Brown. swedesboro;
Asst seciy, rank Warrington, swedeSboro.
Treasurer, William Gei@er, Mulliel liIli.
Chaplain, Rev. W. y. Ogborn, bridgeport.
Marshal, ChaIkley Kirby, Ilarrisonville;
Dep. Marshal, Lille Borton, l~larrisonyilie.
Guard, Rebecca II. Jones', H~arrisonViiIc
Sentinel, Olive Robinson, Jacksonville.
District Lecturer, Rev. W. \. Ogbern. Bridge
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The Gloucester county Republicans have
agreed, it is said, upon the following NOM
nations for the fall campaign: Senator,
Joseph B. Roe, the present Assemblyman;
Clerk, Henry c. Loudenslager; Sheriff,
Frank Ridgway; Assemblyman, NJ. NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The experts who have been examining the
accounts of Ives & Co., of New York, re-
ported on Saturday that the firms liabili-
ties were SIG, 40, 1913, and it's assets, aomi-
nally, $23, 7S6, 300.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

James Silpath, of Burlington, who at
tempted to commit suicide a few days ago
by cutting his throat, died Wednesday
morning from his injuries.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The meeting of the National Committee
of the Prohibition party called for Novcm-
Der 10th, at Chicago, has been postponed
to November Both.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

LODGE DIRECTORY, WITH NAMES OF LODGE DEPU-
TIES AND NIGHT OF MEETING.
District Deputy, Z. 5. Fogg, Woodstown.
IS. Nazarene, Rev. W. y. Ogborn, Bridge
port, Friday.
IL Marrisonville J. W. +. Wilkinson, ilar-
iG3. Sincerity. DE-. E. +. peGrort, Mullica
Hill, Monday.
los. Woodstown, Joseph 5. Bradway, Woods
town, Tuesday.
ia. SwedesDoro, Theodore Brown, oWedes-
boro, Monday.
lal. Simpson, c. L. Johnston, Mantua, Mon
III. Good Intent. c. {. Barber, P~edricktown,
Monday.
Lodge Deputies and others are respectfully
requested to notify US of any i~naceufs1cy in
the foregoing directory.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The Law and Order Society Of Bridgeton
is gathering in the elub-room keepers and
other illegal liquor sellers and furnishing
them by fines and otherwise. The calcu-
lation is that the Salem clubs will be taken
care of in due season.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
I~DdsDenient Order Of Good TGmllaTS.
With District of New Jersey,
Comprising the Counties OF Salem and Gloucester
Faith, Hope and Charity.
DIR pI

No member shall make, buy, sell, use, FUR
nish, or cause 10 be furnished TO others as IL
beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors, vine
or cider and every member shall dtscounte-
nance the manufacture sale ana use thefeoi
in all proper ways
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
PIANOS NJ

TITE Estcy piano is as thoroughly reliable in
l. every particular as the Estey organ; is
made by the same company, and guaranteed
by them To give just as good satisfaction as
their organ, which has a worldwide rcputa-
ton as the best organ made.
Prices very low for cash, or ON easy monthly
payments. GEORGE DARE,
Agent for Salem county,
Aprl-ly Grant street, Salem, NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

The amount of trade dollars redeemed
up to date is s7,400, 900.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26
IT 1T W.T. tt]NLto "
Woodstown, N. J.

Perfection Bustles, the best and cheap
est bustles sold at the price, G5 cents.
They always keep in place and in good
shape, and wear beyond expectations.-E.
b. Humphreys & Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26


The Prohibition State Convention, of
Pennsylvania, met on Wednesday in Har-
risburg, about 525 delegates, ten or twelve
of them women, being present. S. b.
Chase, of Easton, was chosen temporary
chairman. A. A.. Stevens, Chairman of
the State Committee, made a speech, de-
failing the conduct Of the canvass last fall.
He spoke of his unsuccessful effort to Sc
cure from the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany the onc-cent-a-mile rate for delegates
allowed the delegates to the recent Isepub-
lican Convention. One of the Vice Presi-
dents OF the railroad company, he said, had
f'told him the reduced rate was given to
the Republican delegates as a matter of
policy, because that was the party in pow
err, and that the Democratic delegates
would have to pay the two-cent rate"
James Black, of York, offered a resolution,
which was adopted, for the appointment of
a committee to ascertain the facts in regard
to the discrimination by the railroad COM
pany and publish them to the world.
Messrs. Wolfe, Black and Gill were ap-
pointed the committee. In the afternoon
session Charles S. Wolfe, of Union, was
chosen permanent chairman. The plat
form was reported and adopted, but the
nomination of candidates was postponed
until Thursday. The platform, besides in
sisting upon prohibition, denounces the
course of the Republican and Democratic
parties in regard to the liquor question;
fayors a protective tariff; the prevention of
pauper and criminal immigration; the res
e~rvation of the public lands for actual set
tiers; the retention of the Bible in the pub
lie schools; pensions for dependent soldiers
and their families; a civil service based on
personal fitness: arbitration in labor and
International disputes; woman suffrage,
and the observance Of the Sabbath, and ar
raigns the Republican party for the mys-
terious defeat of the State Revenue bill.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

1t looks to us at this writing as though
there was a good deal of nonsense in the
milk laws. Just how skinned milk can
be any the less SKINNED by being put in a
can with letters of a certain size stamped
or put on it, doesn't appear at first blush.
SKINNED milk is not in itself unwhole-
some, though of course not as nutritious
as the unskimmed fluid, and it nswer a
good many purposes in the domestic econ
omy at less cost than the other. Most peo-
pie who want SKINNED milk ask for it un-
der that name and few dealers are so dis
honest co as to palm off on them the an
SKINNED article at the same price. The
spirit and intent of the law would seem
to be to prevent the sale Of skinned for
unskimmed-or ncw-milk as it is called
here, but its working seems TO be to stop
the sale Of the SKINNED milk altogether.
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n crop Report.


The crop report for August issued by the
Department of Agriculture, shows that the
condition Of fruit IN New Jersey is fully as
discouraging as it was two months ago.
The apple crop in the State has steadily
declined, and is now almost a failure. Tho
present average is only 81 per cent. The
injurious effect Of drought, blight, and ex-
cessivc heat in midsummcr is apparent in
small and inferior fruit in certain counties
in the State. The August report says:
"Taken as a whole, the prospect for an
apple crop is far below the medium in
quality, and one of the smallest, fnot the
smallest, on record.
'"Thc peach crop in New Jersey has
steadily declined, as follows: June 90 per
cent; July, ~ per cent. August, "a per
cent. On June / the prospect was favor
able for an average crop, the bloom being
good, but unfavorable weather and adverse
conditions since have reduced the average
to a very low figure. Reports from agents
of the Agricultural Department in New
Jersey show that in many orchards halfof
the apple and peach crop has dropped off.
The failure in many instances is attributed
to the cold and wet weather at the time of
blossoming, in the fertilizing of the bios
SONS. The same applies to thepeach crop,
which is light. The season has been Won
d~erfully favorable for the maturing of
grapes, owing TO the long continued high
temperature"
The monthly table shows The following
crop estimate for New Jersey in August:
Corn, condition excellent, 100 per cent;
oats, good, So per cent. b~uckwheat, ex-
c%ellent, % per cent; potatoes, good, Irish
90 and sweet 81 per cent. hay, 81 per cent.
clover, SO per cent. pasture, 90 per cent.
apples and peaches, 81 per cent. grapes
(above the average Z 8pcr cent. The New
Jersey buckwheat crop promises to be the
best in many years, the average being 80
per cent. Tho Jersey peach crop has also
been affected by the deadly disease known
as the 'tyellows, " for which no cure has
yet been found, and for which swift de-
struction of the affected trees is the only
remedy in previous experience of orchard
lists. In some localities this disease has
placed an absolute ban on peach growing,
Rates to Pennsylvania STATE
Fair.
The thirty-third annual exhibition of the
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
will be held at the Fair grounds, near Ger
mantown Junction, Philadelphia, Septem-
Der 9TH to 18th, inclusive. The exhibition
will be unusually comprehensive, and will
embrace manufactures, machinery, imple-
ments, apparatus, prodsce, live stock, and
miscellaneous displays drawn from every
branch of industry. The premium list ag-
grega.es $50, 900, and this with the mag
nificent facilities offered by the new
grounds will insure a hne display. The
grounds are located at Germantown June
ton, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, with
direct communication from every portion
Of the Pennsylvania System.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will sell excursion tickets to the Fair
grounds from all stations on it's main line
and branches, September 9TH to nth, good
to return until Goth, at reduced rates.
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LODGE DIRECTORY, WITH NAMES OF LODGE DEP
tbs ANp SIGHT OF MEETING.

Next meeting of District Lodge at Woods
town. October y, ISL
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-26

Porcelain lined preserving kettles
from 3 qts. at IS cts, to 10 qts. at
IS cents. All intermediate sizes at
corresponding rates.
See our new spiral bustlcs at Ioc.
Go to our new store under the
Opera House if you want anything
in the shoe line.
Printed muslins l yard wide, fine
goods, fast colors. Make nice dress
es, though usually sold for other
purposes.
F. B. HUMPHREYS & Co.,
Woodstown, N. J.
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LOCAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
OF f YORK

wi be charge | ut the rate of 4 cts a line for
first insertion, and , cts per line tor each sub
scquent insertion.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

her, and as fur as KNOWN where she come
from she might ha' come along with the
flakes. You see, to begin at the begin
MIN, when the Colonies got their backs
up an sot out for to be independent, my
father and mother was jist married,
they was young and struck out inter the
woods. They didn't feel no great afraid
because. they was young, and she
thought he could kill all the Injuns
jist a. well as not, and he thought SO too.
Well, they want pestered none by the
I~njuns, but there's other things beside
them in the woods, forty mild from any
settlement, now I tell ye; twan't all
sugar an m'lasses. Mother she had ten
Children and she never see another
woman's face nigh to her till after the
first six was born. The wasn't no
doctor neither, but them as has to make
.clearun's has to 60 beyond doctors, so
they done as. well al they could, and
when the Children got out O. sorts, as
they will sometimes, why they doctored
'em up with YARDS and sech, and if they
lived they lived, and if they didn't the
wasn't nobody to blame. But most of
'em lived. Jacob he fell off'n the top of
q big tree an broke his neck when he
was ten year old, an Almiry she got
drownded in a freshet, but that was .
d~ispensation father said, an the was
eight Of EN- left.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

farm betwixt here and Littleton; and
Poll and Sail, the two girls, they stayed
to home too, and done the spinnin' and
the weavin' and the knittin', for mother
was gettins consider'ble old by the time
they'd growed up. But I'm gettin' ahead
Of time.
"Well, the winter I was ~ten-year old
there come q snow-storm the like OF
which no man ever see before in them
parts; twas about the last of Decem-
Der; we expected storms around, that
time o. year, but this one beat all; it sot
in jest before breakfast of a Tuesday;
I remember that because the girls was
real pleased to think it didn't come a
Monday. Monday was a dark day, too,
kind Of gray all over, and the wind whin-
in like a lost hound all down in amongst
the hollers of the m%ountings; and when
me and Sam come in from choppin' faith
er said we'd better give the critters out
to the barn a good lot O. fodder, an all
they'd drink, for if he knowed any thing
there was considerable of q storm comm.
Father was rheumaticky, and he'd tell
the weather real good by. his leg; it
ached. tremendous that night.
"Sure enough, next day it come down
before breakfast jest as fine, and fast,
and thick! You couldn't see q foot off;
81 Sam and me didn't go chopin, we
staid at home and finished up some work
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29
$50 SANTA CLAUS SITTING FOR HIS PORTRAIT go

swell, we'd growed up into considers
BILE good-sized ~fellers; I was the young
est, and by time I come along the Col
onies was States, and there wasn't no
King, and Their was q travelled road
cleared up to Littleton settlement, where
there was q few houses and now and then
there'd be a team come up from below.
Pm well onto ninety year old and used
to teams and railroads and stages now,
but in them days they used to be skerce,
and twas mostly fellers goin' to the
lumber camps that went apast our
clearin,. There was six of us boys, and
two girls. Eben he went down below
and got q job at teamin', down to what's
Plymouth now, and cot married, and
there he stayed. John he got q notion
to 90 to sea; Lord only knows what put
1t into his head ct 'twasn't readin' an
old book mother had, writ by q searfarin'
man; 60 be went of with pack on his
back, and / expect he got drownded; he
never come back. Joe went to look after
him, and he never come back; that's
three Of lem. Simeon he hankered after
schoolin', so he put of down below, hired
ont to q farmer some 'eres round 'Sogee
Pond, and went to school, and fn'ly
KEEP, school; he'd come home sometimes
to see mother, he ser BY mother dread
fully. So Sam and me was Ill the boys
to home we staid by and kept clearin,
gilmore u, more, till we'd got quite .
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

in the barn, and then we fetched in some
logs into the woodshed and sawed am
split 'em.
"Wen it snew all that night, and by
mornin' the was three foot of snow,
good. Father he shook his head when
he see it didn't let up none.
"'Snow meal
Snow o good deal.'
says he, kinder solemn. You might
think me and Sam was considerable
little to be chopin, he bein' twelve and
I ten, but we wal real large and strong,
and we could chop down birches a good
as father could, and saw real stable logs
with our cross-cut saw.
ssWell, it snew and snew all that day
and we went to bed early; 'twasn't no
use to set up. for there wasn't nothing
to do; * we banked up q good log and
before ten o'clock every soul Of us wa,
fast and snorin'.
81 thought / heered somethin' along
about the middle Of the night. but
thought the wind had ris; 80 I pulled
the quilt over my ears and snoozed OF
agin. But wasn't I struck all Of q heap
when finally daylight come, and goin'
down 90 as to dig out q way to the barn
real early, what did ! see but mother
settin, up close to the Are o rockin'
away with . small child in her lap.
& OF all thingsl' says !. Where did
You get that dollyW
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29
sSThen mother sort of hushed me up,

''Then mother sort OF hushed me up,
for the child was asleep, but she said
that long about the middle of the night
fathers leg ached soft he couldn't
to bear it, and she'd just made up her
mind to get up and warm a blanket to
put round it. when she heered the
kitchen door into the wood-shed open,
and shut again, direct. She sort of
thought it was me or Sam had got up
too soon, 80 she called out, but nobody
answered, and then she put on her
clothing and went out, but twas pitch
dark, SO she CROPPED along to where the
Undertook was, and struck a light and Lit
O candle; and then she see something
like a big bundle a lynn right OF the
floor close to the shed door; we'll, she
undone it and there was a little gal
about three years old, nigh about froze
to death. So she called Poll up the gal
slept in another bedroom next to the
kitchen, same side as mothers, and
Poll she fetched in a pan Of snow; there
was enough ont, and they fell to and
took of her clo'es and rubbed her good
with the snow till che come to; then
they wrapped her up, and fed her some
warm milk, and she began to cry like
every thing, and to sing out:
"'Mamma! mamma! daddyn as loud
as she could holler. That fetched father
out, for he'd been a-waitin' for the hot
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

blanket mother ID forgot all about, a.
patient as men-folks ever do wait, and
that isn't so great; but when he heered
that child's squan he jumped up, pulled
on his trousers and come out.
"fWho fetched it3' says he, first thing.
swell, now, II you'll b'Ieve it, mother
hadn't give q thought to that, she was
SO took up with rubbin' and feedin' and
coaxin' the child; jest like q womani SO
father he put right out into the shed,
and there, where the snow had kinder
sifted In under the door, there was the
track Of . mans boots; he couldn't
never have opened the door-the man, I
ANY wayif we hadn't shoveled the
snow away some the day before, 80 as to
get to the wood-pile for more logs. Well,
father he opened the door, but by that
time the snow had covered up any thing
in the way Of tracks, and in the deep
dark you couldn't e q yard ahead. So
he come back a-shakin' his head.
"I guess she showed down. says he.
sThet's all we'll ever know about her.
$50 he went back to bed, and Poll she
het up the. blanket for him and went
back to her room; but mother she set
there by the fire that Poll had raked
open and set a-goin' the hull Of the rest
Of the night, q huggin' and coaxin' that
young one TO sleep, jest like . woman.
Twas . real pretty little cretur, that
child was; with big, soft, dark eyes, for
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

"'Thats was the Willey's dog!' says
Eb Wells, the fellerI told Of who was
fust to see the slide.
tsVVell, the short ont is, we got togeth-
er forty-odd men, and we looked high
and low for the Wlleys; tthe' wan'tno
trace on en-; fn'lly, Eb Wells he found
Wiley q piece down the brook, right in
the he'd ont; and pretty soon I see suth-
Ia q stickin' out q mite under q stun that
didn't look material, 50 we heaved the
stun of and dug out two Of 'em, and
fore nightfau we found three mor in
different places near about them trees
I'll show We, down OF tho road . piece;
but the two boys an one Of the gals ney-
er sraa found, nor never will be-
aAre there any ancestors Of the
Willeys inhabiting the house nowl''
asked an individual who had joined our
party. The old man did not smile,
though the rest Of us were not so civil.
HNo, the, ain'tls said he; tsthey was
all killed, I told We; folks that can't stay
to hum, scarf or no, gener'lly wish
es they he'd Ia the eend. Now turning
to me-sef you want to Q whereabouts
we found lem, come along
tsBut who was Paulinaa said ].
His old vissge softened asI said the
name, and his eye lit with . dim spark
Of tender memory.
sWell / done, rightly spealdn', who
she was, she snew down, we used TO tell
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29

bird-sound. So he scrambled back, up
to what they call Crawford's, now;
the was a house there, and the was
a house a mild up, and in that there
little interval to Fahyhan's, there
was folks gettin' in hay, and he fetched
'em all along, but they couldn't find
stock nor lock of them Willeys, so they
agreed he should go down the brook,
and see it mabbe some on 'em had got
out by way Of Jul town, and the rest
went back to fetch spades, and picks
and axes.
swell, I was some interested in them
Willeys, for his step-uncle went and
married u Pauliny, she that snew
down."
"What?" said I.
"Well, I'll tell ye, if you want to heart,
by and by; but, as I was sayin', bein'
some interested, I went around to what
folks the was and nobody'd see moth
ing Of Wi1ley's folks; one man said he
was out IN the night when the slide
came down, with his lantern, a tyin' up
q Hereford steer he he'd that wasn't
kind, like it's mate, but real fractions;
and rs he came out O. the barn he see
. yeller dog goin' by full chisel down
the road, jest as though twas after
some cretur or some cretur was after
it; he kinder thought it had see a
lousivee in the woods, and was skeert.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-29
SHOWED DOWN.
Shearjashub's Strange Story Of
q New Years Present.

Y LAND!
you think
it's dread
full pretty
uphere,
d y g 2
Y u d
to
see these
m t =
ings in the
win t g r
time, now